Wole Soyinka: Political Contexts Overview

Aké

• Ake: The Years of Childhood, World War Two, and Post-Colonial Literature
• World War II and Personal History in Wole Soyinka's Ake
• Imagery and the Inseperability of Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial in Ake
• Colonialism in Soyinka and Conrad

The Poems

• Soyinka's Pessimism in "Procession"
• Wole Soyinka's "Purgatory"
• "Ever-Ready Bank Accounts"
• The Image of Bread in "Relief"
• "Relief (or Wedding in a Minor Key)"
• "When Seasons Change" as a Cry Against the Past
• Who are the "Men Over the Wall"?

Interviews (with Soyinka)

• B. Grill, "Take a Stand, Mandela!" (Interview with Soyinka)

Miscellaneous

• Claude Ake, Director, Centre for Advanced Social Sciences, Part Harcourt, NigeriaThe Democratization of Disempowerment in Africa

Last Modified: 18 March, 2002